Entries Tagged as 'PC'

Screencasting in Ubuntu

May 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments

I’ve done my first screencast in Ubuntu using gtk-record My Desktop, a tool that records desktop sessions in Linux. I’ve long wanted to do screencasts in Ubuntu ever since I installed Feisty Fawn or the 7.04 release but I haven’t been successful in my initial attempts.
I first tried capturing desktop sessions into movie files using [...]

Tags: Open source · PC · free software

Make your Windows PC look, act like OS X

August 2nd, 2006 · 8 Comments

Refresh your boring Windows desktop by transforming it to resemble the sleek Mac OS X with the FlyakiteOSX transformation pack. The free software package automates the installation of tweaks, third-party programs, desktop themes and menus to make your Windows PC look and act like OS X (see screenshots below).
I tried the software and found the [...]

Tags: PC

How to encode movies for playing in your cellphone

February 9th, 2006 · 6 Comments

I used to scoff at the prospect of watching movie clips in your cellphone. After all, who’d want to watch something in very small screen when you can always watch it on your PC or TV. I’ve watched 3GP movie clips in various phone demos and did not find it something to drool over.
But after [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile · PC

Get things done faster on your mobile phone and PC with FMA

January 3rd, 2006 · 15 Comments

If there’s one application responsible for an exponential boost in my productivity at the news copy desk it’s Float’s Mobile Agent (FMA). I wrote a short post about FMA earlier. FMA is an open source application that allows you to manage and operate your mobile phone through your PC via a data cable, infrared or [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile · Newsroom tech · Open source · PC · productivity

Gush: RSS reader, instant messenger in sleek package

November 29th, 2005 · No Comments

I downloaded Gush several months back and then forgot about it. Back then, I never thought I’d need a desktop RSS reader. After all, my current Cybercafe Experiment is to have all the data I need online–to make the network my computer, as Sun puts it.
I only remembered downloading the software when I came across [...]

Tags: PC · RSS

Konfabulous

August 2nd, 2005 · 1 Comment

Everything stopped when I downloaded Konfabulator last week – all tasks were set aside as I went through all the available widgets in the software publisher’s website. At the end of my search, I decided on using the following widgets: SiteCheck – to monitor the availability of my personal and work websites; Thesaurus-Dictionary, which [...]

Tags: PC